Showing the World Night There are many reasons that Elie Wiesel wrote Night. One of the reasons was to show the world something. Show the world what happened form an adolescent’s point of view. Show his feelings about the Holocaust. To be sure that the world will never make the same mistake again. Elie Wiesel also wanted the world to know about his ordeal the tragedy he had to suffer through. Finally someone having lived through the ordeal could not keep silent and had to show people how they suffered.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Joseph Goebbels was the minister of propaganda and National Enlightenment.
One of the ways was persuading the others that you “side” is the correct way to be. Another thing the Nazis did was that the only people who were able to be on the radio, write papers, ect. Were the members of the Reich Chamber. The third thing the Nazis did was burn all of the books that did not agree with there ideas.
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
Kristallnacht was the “night of broken glass.” During Kristallnacht rioters burned down Jewish synagogues, homes, and office spaces.
General Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, General Heinrich Muller, Colonel Adolf Eichmann, Colonel Eberhard Schongarth, major Rudolf Lange, Major General Otto Hofmann, Roland Freisler, Alfred meyer, Georg Leibrandt, Martin Luther, Wilhelm Stuckart, Erich Naumann, Josef Buhler, and Gerhard Klopfer attended the Wansee Conference.
The final solution was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of European Jews.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
Seven other groups that were also targeted were the Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet POW, Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.
The Roma, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet POW, and the Afro-Germans were faced with annihilation. The Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals would be associated as enemies and security and faced annihilation.
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
The three types of ghettos are the closed ghettos, the open ghettos, and the destruction ghettos.
The closed ghettos were in German-occupied Poland, they were surrounded by walls of by fences. The were extremely unsanitary. The open ghettos were in Poland and the Soviet Union. These had no walls or fences but there were restrictions from entering and leaving. The destruction ghettos were in German-occupied Soviet union. They existed only 2-6 weeks until occupants were killed or deported.
Life in the ghettos was hard and there were often revolts and riots.
The differences between the camps were in labor camps they made you work for the Nazis making bullets and things, and in Death camps the Nazis just killed the Jews.
Conditions were hard, not enough food, water, and other essentials.
The two main ways were by poison gas of by shooting.
24 Defendants were charged, they represented the Nazi Party.
The International Military Trbunal decided that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense for criminal acts.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Crematorium
Crematorium Hot and Stone
Burning, Smoking, and smoldering
Fiery as a dragons breath, ghastly as murder
A one way ticket to death
Dying
Into darkness in the night
Table of Contents
Noelle R. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Showing the World Night
There are many reasons that Elie Wiesel wrote Night. One of the reasons was to show the world something. Show the world what happened form an adolescent’s point of view. Show his feelings about the Holocaust. To be sure that the world will never make the same mistake again. Elie Wiesel also wanted the world to know about his ordeal the tragedy he had to suffer through. Finally someone having lived through the ordeal could not keep silent and had to show people how they suffered.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web SearchBackground Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
Joseph Goebbels was the minister of propaganda and National Enlightenment.
One of the ways was persuading the others that you “side” is the correct way to be. Another thing the Nazis did was that the only people who were able to be on the radio, write papers, ect. Were the members of the Reich Chamber. The third thing the Nazis did was burn all of the books that did not agree with there ideas.
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
General Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, General Heinrich Muller, Colonel Adolf Eichmann, Colonel Eberhard Schongarth, major Rudolf Lange, Major General Otto Hofmann, Roland Freisler, Alfred meyer, Georg Leibrandt, Martin Luther, Wilhelm Stuckart, Erich Naumann, Josef Buhler, and Gerhard Klopfer attended the Wansee Conference.
The final solution was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of European Jews.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
The Roma, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet POW, and the Afro-Germans were faced with annihilation. The Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals would be associated as enemies and security and faced annihilation.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
The closed ghettos were in German-occupied Poland, they were surrounded by walls of by fences. The were extremely unsanitary. The open ghettos were in Poland and the Soviet Union. These had no walls or fences but there were restrictions from entering and leaving. The destruction ghettos were in German-occupied Soviet union. They existed only 2-6 weeks until occupants were killed or deported.
Life in the ghettos was hard and there were often revolts and riots.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
Conditions were hard, not enough food, water, and other essentials.
The two main ways were by poison gas of by shooting.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
Hitler committed suicide.
24 Defendants were charged, they represented the Nazi Party.
The International Military Trbunal decided that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense for criminal acts.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Crematorium
CrematoriumHot and Stone
Burning, Smoking, and smoldering
Fiery as a dragons breath, ghastly as murder
A one way ticket to death
Dying
Into darkness in the night